At present, Preview, Save & Post are three different steps.

Seems to me a lot of bandwidth and time could be saved if when you preview, you also had the option to 1. Go Back-Edit.......2. Save........3. Post

all on the same page. If the preview was ok, then you could just save and post all at the same time.

Preview opens in a new window, how would it save bandwidth. To save or post you simply close the preview window.

I think the idea would be that Preview would open in the same window with the further option to Post or Save as is or to go back and Edit.

I guess it would cut out one step if your listing was ready to go when previewed.

(If this was done, though, I'd want Error Check on this page as well because that's my final step -- after I've looked at the preview.)

I see what you mean. Personally though, I like the fact that preview opens in a new window. I think if my connection failed during preview in the same window and I lost all my work I would be mad as a goat...Bahhhhh!..lol. Since it opens in a new window..if something goes wrong connect wise, you still have your created listing there in front of you until you can get connected again.

Good points!

What I meant by saving bandwidth, I was speaking of Auctiva saving THEIR bandwidth.

At present, I have to open the Preview page, close it, Save , then click on Saved Auctions, then select the one I just saved, and then Post.

Just seems like a lot of steps of opening pages and closing and such. Hence a lot of extra loading and bandwidth used by auctiva.

And a lot of steps for me (time).

Since I'm brand new to Auctiva, it was just something I noticed and thought a lot could be saved in time and bandwidth.

If you just press Post, it will post your listing and automaticly save it.

The reason for the save button is so you can save what you're working on and come back to it later.


-bt

Ahhhh, I get what you mean now pretty. I guess the way the post read it came out like you wanted preview, post and save all in the same window. What you are saying is that you have been saving first then posting your listings. Like baytech said, when you post, it automatically saves as well. If your posting no need to save first. Sorry for the confusion.

Well, actually, I was suggesting that you could preview,post and save all in the same window.

Of course, you would only want to do that if all was well with the preview.

My little brain was thinking that if when you click on preview, at the bottom of that page would be:
Option 1-Edit (go back)
Option 2-Save
Option 3-Save and Post

But then I'm really new and didn't know that to post was to save, too. It says on the page:
Post OR Save and the OR is in caps. Didn't sound like it did both.........

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Personally though, I like the fact that preview opens in a new window. I think if my connection failed during preview in the same window and I lost all my work I would be mad as a goat.

Yeah, this is a good point. In fact, there have been a few times when I suddenly get a runtime error or something in the Preview window -- which is loads better than getting it when I hit Error Check or something else that affects the actual listing.